Freddie Prinze Jr. was not a fan of how the stipulation went down at SummerSlam between Roman Reigns and Jey Uso.
The actor and former WWE writer was heavily critical of the “Tribal Combat” match as he believed everything around the fight to be a lie. Prinze Jr. said the following on a recent episode of Wrestling With Freddie:
“[A] farce, a complete fallacy, and I’m pissed off about it. What the hell is a Tribal Combat? I thought these guys were going to come out, Wakanda style, with like a kendo stick, I don’t know if Samoans have shields, but if they do, Samoan shields, and they whip each other’s ass until the kendo sticks broke, and then bash each other with a shield until that breaks. And then when there’s nothing left, they just fight.”
Freddie Prinze Jr. Thinks The Match Lacked Samoan Culture
Prinze Jr. wasn’t done with his criticism either as not only did he think that the bout lacked any Samoan identity but it didn’t adhere to the expectations of it just being Reigns and Jey Uso “mono-a-mono.”
“No one’s allowed to interfere, [yet] two people interfere. I didn’t feel a lot of Samoan culture in the match, which was just kind of weird to me. And I’m not trying to say it in a woke way, I’m just … it was basically a [No DQ] match.”
The Bloodline story certainly has taken an unexpected route as Jimmy Uso ended up backstabbing Jey in order that Roman retained his gold. Now Reigns, along with Jimmy are expected to be at WWE SmackDown this Friday.
H/t to Wrestling Inc.